recommend any good documentaries?
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Nice thread on documentaries
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?t=324573&highlight=Documentary
Should do it on weed cuz that seems to be the hot topic these days. Super High Me is pretty good documentary
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?t=324573&highlight=Documentary
Should do it on weed cuz that seems to be the hot topic these days. Super High Me is pretty good documentary
if you wanna go the drug cartel route..."cocaine cowboys" is good
the other night i watched "god grew tired of us"....follows 3 lost boys from sudan and documents their experience of coming to america. you watch them see rooms with light, showers, grocery store food etc. for the first time...all the shit we take for granted. good stuff
the king of kong is a good one. follows dudes obsessed with beating the donkey kong record. theres a lot of interesting and deeper meanings within the film though
pbs frontline's "god in america" is off the chains. 6 hours long though.
pretty much every pbs frontline is legit....theres one where they follow a group of taliban rebels that i really liked. i also really liked an old one of theirs called "consumers of cool"...documents how mtv and pop culture market to the youth. or one about boys who dance for older men in afghanistan...shit is disturbing but fascinating cause its so bizarre
and there's this one doc called "surfwise" that i think is really interesting. about a doctor who quits his profession and forces his family to live like nomads in a camper as they travel the coast surfing (and it was like 5-6 kids). so his kids never went to school but were all really good surfers. we see how that has affected them as adults. so its not about surfing but about power, parenting, society...really good stuff
so many....but i guess it depends what you're into. if you like character driven docs (like ones where you just trip out on watching unique human beings), historical, specific topic or social issue, etc.?
the other night i watched "god grew tired of us"....follows 3 lost boys from sudan and documents their experience of coming to america. you watch them see rooms with light, showers, grocery store food etc. for the first time...all the shit we take for granted. good stuff
the king of kong is a good one. follows dudes obsessed with beating the donkey kong record. theres a lot of interesting and deeper meanings within the film though
pbs frontline's "god in america" is off the chains. 6 hours long though.
pretty much every pbs frontline is legit....theres one where they follow a group of taliban rebels that i really liked. i also really liked an old one of theirs called "consumers of cool"...documents how mtv and pop culture market to the youth. or one about boys who dance for older men in afghanistan...shit is disturbing but fascinating cause its so bizarre
and there's this one doc called "surfwise" that i think is really interesting. about a doctor who quits his profession and forces his family to live like nomads in a camper as they travel the coast surfing (and it was like 5-6 kids). so his kids never went to school but were all really good surfers. we see how that has affected them as adults. so its not about surfing but about power, parenting, society...really good stuff
so many....but i guess it depends what you're into. if you like character driven docs (like ones where you just trip out on watching unique human beings), historical, specific topic or social issue, etc.?
Link (Full Movie): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7938272576939034400#
This was a great documentary about poet/activist John Trudell. He was a spokesperson for AIM (American Indian Movement). There's a lot of underlying issues you could pursue for your paper.
